Peer punishment is widely lauded as a decentralized solution to the problem of social cooperation. However … punishment was primarily altruistic, was sensitive to costs, and promoted cooperation. In generalized exchange, peer punishment … was also altruistic and relatively frequent, but did not increase cooperation. While the dense punishment network …

voluntary cooperation in team production. Our experimental data suggest an indirect and gender-specific link: Overconfident men …

Voluntary cooperation contributes significantly to development and prosperity. Particularly in developing countries …, higher levels of voluntary cooperation could help fill the gap in public goods provision left by cash-strapped governments …

players to choose team remuneration in a series of laboratory experiments. This allows for high cooperation payoffs but also … provides individual free-riding incentives. Due to significant cooperation, we observe that, in team remuneration, participants …

decisions involving altruism and cooperation. We collected data with a laboratory experiment where subjects were asked to … incentives foster higher subsequent altruism and cooperation as compared with competitive or individual incentives. By contrast … for the recipient. The effect of incentives on altruism and cooperation was moderated by relative rank in the incentivized …